195. [197.] 57. People who are caught up in faith alone believe in instantaneous salvation and pure mercy, and therefore they plead for mercy alone and believe they are instantly saved the moment they receive faith, even if it is in the last hour of their life. They also believe that forgiveness of all sins means a wiping away of all evils. They do not wish for forgiveness through repentance of life, but through thinking those things which they call tenets of their faith. Thus they ignore all the means of salvation. They were shown that such notions are a delusion, which was represented as being inwardly full of venomous snakes. (I was shown by ludicrous displays the nature of their delusion, that they think it to be like trying to eject snakes through their posteriors.)